Wednesday, December 12, 2007

(2007, Ontario, Canada) Recently a patient was rushed into the hospital, needing a surgeon to reattach the tips of his fingers to his left hand. While taking the patient history, it was found that this bright chap got the idea of holding his lawn mower sideways and applying it to his hedge. He was holding the mower deck, trimming the hedge, and things went well until the weight of the mower got to be a bit much. He readjusted his grip on the mower deck, and that was when the blade bit him.

When the reconstructive plastic surgeon was almost finished with the complex job of sewing the patient back together, another patient came in with the same injury! On investigation, it was found that he, too, had been using his mower to trim his hedge. Apparently, he lived near the first patient. He saw his neighbor trimming his hedge with the mower, and thought it was a bright idea.

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Thursday, November 01, 2007

The first thing you should know is that Diesel doesn't play by the rules. I, however, do. Although the reason that Diesel doesn't play by the rules is that he doesn't know most of them. I know many rules and thats why I follow them.

The second thing you should know is that a rule is defined as:1. A principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc2. Control, government, or dominion3. A prescribed mathematical method for performing a calculation or solving a problem

I would assume that Diesel would mean "A principle or regulation..." because not playing by the control of government doesn't make sense. He could, of course mean that he doesn't follow mathematical rules. He could think that 2+2=3. However, for the sake of this post we will assume that he is talking about principles or regulations, as those are the type of rules that I follow. Now, I'm not saying that I don't think that 2+2=4. I just want you to know that I do follow regulations.

I also mentioned I wasn't a cop. I said this to make sure you didn't think I was a cop after reading Diesels post. He explains that he is a cop and you may have thought that I was a cop after reading his post. I am surely not a cop. Unless, of course, you count the fact that I am in the Mattress Police force. This does not make me a cop as a cop is defined as a person who seeks to regulate a specified behavior, activity, practice, etc. Being in the mattress police does not mean that I regulate a specified behavior, activity or practice. But as I mentioned above I DO follow regulations. The mattress police do nothing more than sit at their computers and type stupid blog posts. A mattress police can be a cop, however this does not mean that by being a mattress police that you are automatically a cop.

The other thing I mentioned is that my name is Brandon. This would be because my parents liked some TV personallity named Brandon and thought that it was a good name. Therefore my name is Brandon.

The reason I told you that Diesel doesn't play by the rules is because this post wouldn't have much meaning without me semi-plagiarizing his work. This, by the way, is not breaking the rules considering that Diesels rules for plagerizing are, "you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). " I belive I gave credit where it is due, and that I did not suggest that Diesel endorses my work. Therefore, I am still "playing by the rules."

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

I have a dad. Yes I know. So do you, and the person reading over your shoulder, and the person you will email after reading this, and the person that will read over their shoulder after you send that email. If they don't, then they used to. However, my dad is special. He has these little things that are almost OCD. Here is a short list of things he obseses over:

I don't know why he cares so much about these things. He just does. In fact, the only reason I wrote this, even though I had already posted one today, is because he used one of them today. The one that is only ever directed at me. He said, "...as long as my Internet works."

Also, I never thought of what that person said to me. This is going to bug me all night.

Why is the internet always a globe or a cloud? This question bugs me a lot.

Well it turns out that Mrs. Diesel didn't think I was that funny. Oh well go vote anyway.

The other day I got 2 Linksys routers in the mail. I only needed one, but if you have 2 why not use them?

Oh by the way if you don't understand computer networking, then reading this would be like wasting precious minutes of your life.

Anyway, I decided to hook up these two routers to my house network, which now looks like this:

If anyone else has ever set up a network like this, you would know how hard it is to get 3 routers to get along and let the devices connected to the last one still get internet. Plus the server on the second one is a public server, so I have to mantain security at the same time as allowing the 2 routers access to the internet.

Humph....

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Someone told me something really confusing today, and I was going to share it here. But now I forgot what it was. Oh well.

Saturday, September 08, 2007

Apparently Fergie, the very popular music artist, is selling her green Hummer 2. That's not all. She is also giving 100% of it away to Global Green USA.

One of Global Green USA's challenges is climate change and another is clean water. Now as far as climate change goes, I'm going to assume that they are trying to rid the world of global warming and that they are not trying to speed up the process.

OK lets recap. Fergie is selling her H2 (which gets 12-16 MPG) and giving it away to Global Green USA (who is trying to "change climate"). Anyone see something wrong with this equation?

On another note, I submitted my comment for Diesel's picture comment contest. Go over there and submit a comment, and then on Tuesday, go and vote for mine when his wife picks one of mine. :-)

Sunday, July 15, 2007

I was recently looking for new hard drives on eBay. I wasn't really considering hard drives, but I thought I might want to try out the new SATA.

Anyway, I came across this hard drive. I was reading the specifications on it when I came across the warrenty label.

Now look at the caution. It states "Product warranty is void if... the drive experiences shock in excess of 350 Gs." Now tell me, how many times have you made your computer go 350 Gs? Seagate must have had a problem with NASA returning hard drives after making them go too fast. Thats the only logical explaination for setting a G-Force limit on your hard drive, right?

Whatever.

You may have noticed the ClickComments thing at the bottom of my page. That is for people who don't have the time to comment. They just click why they liked/disliked the post. So you lazy people, you can now comment with only one click!

Friday, July 06, 2007

Fritos bagYou could be a winner. No purchase nessasary. Details inside.

Tesco's Tiramisu dessertPrinted on the bottom: Do not turn upside down

Mark and Spencers bread puddingProduct will be hot after heating

Nytol sleep aidProduct may cause drowsiness

Korean kitchen knifeKeep out of children

Japanese food processorNot to be used for the other use

Sweedish chainsawDo not stop chain with hands or genitals

Superman costumeWearing of this garment does not enable you to fly

AND NOW THE WINNER OF THE VIRTUAL SNICKERS BAR...NOBODY!Nobody seemed to have an answer. My dad told me what it was, but he cheated to get the answer. Rick thought I was talking about the title of the blog and not the title of the last post. So oh well. I guess I will virtually eat the virtual Snickers bar myself.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

First up, I am giving away virtual candy to whoever can tell me where the title of this post came from. First to guess gets a virtual king sized Snickers bar.

Anyway now to the point. I checking up on some of my GeoCaches when I came across a map of everywhere this one user had been "caching." There was this link to a website that allows you to make maps of every state you have ever visited. It shows a map of the United States and highlights, in red, all of the states you have visited. Here is my map:

This guy had just used the "visited states" map as a "states I've cached in" map.

On this website you can also create maps of countries you have visited. Sadly, mine just looks like this:

Canadian providences also:

And finally European countries. I can not post a map of this because it does not allow you to chose nothing.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

I recieved a comment from the CEO of Overstock.com. He assured me that they were not responsible for this and that e-mail address can be easily "spoofed" or faked. I am posting this update as so that no one takes Saturday's post seriously.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

I recently got a very scary email. It said that I had purchased ladies Gucci glasses off of eBay and asked for me to pay. Well I had heard of phishing e-mails before, so I went on ebay.com (without clicking any links in the email) and checked my account. And what do you know, I DIDN'T BUY ANY GLASSES!

So I reported the email to eBay. They sent back the confirmation letter saying that they didn't send me the email.

I decided to do a little further research. The email said it was from emmajayne1981. The item number was valid on eBay (as Gucci glasses too) but I wasn't the winning bidder. I looked a little deeper into the email. I found the real email address as 834588375021345.009.2055.46986.1@obay.com .

oBay.com. That's actually kinda clever.Normally you can't get an email unless you have an affiliation with that company or you purchased or registered for an email through that site. So I typed obay.com into Internet Explorer and found something wierd. Overstock.com's website. Overstock is a competitor of eBay.Now I couldn't prove that Overstock owned this website just yet. This could have been fake, just like that email. I headed over to Network Solution's website. If you type in a websites address it will tell you everything about it, including who owns it. Turns out that Overstock really does own it.This seemed kinda wierd so I searched oBay on Yahoo!. I found a news article saying that Overstock orignally was going to be called Obay putting a big emphisis on the O. They bought the site domain but couldn't call themselves Obay. This is a copywright infrigement on eBay's name. So they kept the domain but changed the name of their site.Now my question is, since this email came from an Obay domain, does that mean that Overstock is phishing eBay customers?I'll leave it to you to think about.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

If you remember or you go back through the posts then you will see that I was one of those crazy people who waited outside for a Nintendo Wii. Wanna know what happened, then read on. If not, don't read on.

On Saturday at about 8:30am I woke up. I had been talking non-stop about the Nintendo Wii for days before and was excited to get one. I had decided that if I got there by noon that I would still have time to get in line.

I took a shower and got ready for the day. My dad had said that he had heard of people staying overnight in some cities, so he suggested that I go and check out my compitition. I packed a bag full of supplies for the day. Grabbed all the warmest gear I could find. Found a sleeping bag (not to sleep in of course).

We headed over to Wal-Mart (yes I know, noone likes Wal-Mart. I just heard that they have the most in stock) at about 9:00. When I got there, 3 people were already in line. I decided to stay and wait out the day. I soon found out the 2nd person in line was someone I knew.

Pretty much the whole day went like this:We sat.Then we sat.Then we sat somemore.(Can't lose your spot in line now)But we still found stuff to do once in a while.

At about 10:00 (1 hour after I got there) some people started showing up. By noon the whole line was full (boy was I glad that I didn't wait until 12:00). My dad came by once in a while to see if I wanted food or more clothes. A bunch of people in line had Nintendo DS systems, so we all played a few rounds of Starfox via NiFi (Nintendo wireless).

I called home and asked if my brother wanted to come over for a while. He could skateboard in the parking lot. We traded spots a few times so I could stand up once-in-a-while. My friends Josh and Chuckie came over at about 6:00pm. They saved my spot as I went inside to use the restrooms and play the Guitar Hero 2 demo. Chuckie had to leave about an hour later, but Josh stayed until the end. My family left and it got dark. Josh and I hung out until 11:00pm, one hour before I could buy the Wii. At 11:00 my dad came back and waited the remaining hour. About this time, people started selling there spot in line for more than $50 USD.

At midnight the store manager came out and told us to line up. Only those who were in line for a Wii were to get in the new line. He walked down the row and handed us each a ticket with a number on it. Mine said "4" because I was 4th in line. He walked us through the store in a single file line. We walked up to the layaway department where all the Wii products were. Everyone checked out, one at a time, number 1 going first and number 20 last. After I bought my Wii system and 1 extra controller, I headed off to GameStop.

I had reserved "Legend of Zelda" a few months before. I walked up to a guy at the door and showed him my reciept. He opened the door (I got to skip the line) and I walked in. The guy at the counter handed me the game, and I finally got to go home.

Josh and I stayed up for a few more hours playing Wii Sports and then went to bed.

I have to say, I love the Wii. Buy one today if you can. (This is not an ad) :)

Thursday, March 15, 2007

First up, the webpage everyone has seen at least once. This happens when you click on a link that goes nowhere.

Secondly, the stupid little "x" where a picture should be. You can see this in the post below because the people who I linked that picture to, got jealous and took it off their website so I couldn't have it on mine.

O.K. This is a little personal pet peeve of mine. Microsoft thinks it needs to own everything electronic. So, they put up their own search engine that really sucks.

I think we can all agree that long loading websites should die.

Even worse, long downloads.

(Yes I edited this picture)

O.K. Who really cares if they are going on to a more secure website. Last time I checked, security = good.

I'm glad that it tells me that I'm leaving a secure website. The annoying part is that no matter how many times you check that box, this stupid security alert always comes back.

Whats the point! You have to sign up for 18 offers after you hit 18 targets to get your $50 gift card.

Finally, Geocities is great for people who want to make a family webpage, but don't know how. The bad part about Geocities is that people try to put informative pages up, but end up putting completly false information. If your going to use Geocities, stick with a family page.

So now you know about almost everything I dislike when it comes to the internet. Congratulations.